Get the volunteering buzz at Knoll Gardens’ Volunteer Recruitment Open Day
Knoll Gardens needs garden guides, fundraisers and a bumblebee surveyor to volunteer, so come down to the open day on 12 May.
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HRH The Prince of Wales takes a walk on the wild side at Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) was honoured to welcome The Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Wildlife Trusts, to its Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve on 8 May to visit the Coronation Meadow, Lady’s Mead, and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the nature reserve.
RSPB flies into Knoll Gardens for special wildlife Open Day
The RSPB will be bringing its expertise and advice to Wimborne’s Knoll Gardens for the Open Day on Friday 28 April.
Barn owls go global from Lorton Meadows in Weymouth
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is celebrating the return of its popular live webcam at Lorton, as two barn owls have taken up residence and are sitting on four eggs, being watched by viewers from all over the globe 24 hours a day.
Great Dorset Beach Clean 2017 in Swanage
As part of the ‘Litter Free Coast and Sea’ campaign, Durlston Country Park Rangers are asking people to help clean Swanage beach on 22 April in the Great Dorset Beach Clean 2017.
Dorset Wildlife Trust gives pointers on eco-friendly crabbing
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching a campaign over the Easter holidays to encourage local people and visitors to enjoy crabbing, the eco-friendly way.
Blandford+ Neighbourhood Plan ‘a step too far’ says AONB prior to public hearing
Criticism that a nationally important AONB at Cranborne Chase is not being taken fully into account will be voiced when the Blandford+ Neighbourhood Plan for a housing, household recycling/waste transfer site and school development is examined at a public hearing due to take place on 10 April.
Horses log in to extract fallen trees from the grounds of Highcliffe Castle
Later this month horsepower will beat tractor-power when it comes to extracting dead trees from the grounds of Highcliffe Castle – horses cause less disturbance to the woodland floor and can get through narrower gaps.
Dorset gardeners invited to enter wildlife friendly competition
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is inviting Dorset residents who garden with wildlife in mind to enter the 2017 Wildlife Friendly Gardening Competition.
Shake up in the dinosaur world as new theory suggests they could have originated in Britain and their classifications may be wrong
A radical new theory suggests the first dinosaurs may have originated in the northern hemisphere, possibly Britain, rather than in the southern hemisphere as previously thought and their grouping, accepted for 130 years, could be wrong.